1. There’s a Council of Europe Common Framework of Reference (CEFR) webinar at 15:00 UK time on Thursday: Assessing plurilingualism: An example from practice with Belinda Steinhuber from the Centre for Professional (berufsbezogene) Languages in Austria. Registration here https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=grBJPtViSUilsIbtUZKH0rai7LbFWpVAoRIo3dq5irxUNENFQTFRVERQMU40NjlYRVRLVU5HQkxYVi4u

handout here with example exam tasks (to be discussed during the webinar) https://rm.coe.int/cefr-online-workshop-series-2022-5-handout/1680a6a9d4

and background reading here https://rm.coe.int/cefr-online-workshop-series-2022-5-background-reading/1680a6a9d3

PDFs of both handout and reading below, both of which are probably worth a quick look if you’re interested in plurilingualism even if you can’t attend on Thursday.

2. With a slight delay, and thanks to a prod from my colleague Ellen, here’s the latest edition of The Teacher Trainer from Pilgrims, which has a focus this time on communities of practice https://pilgrimsttj.com/ (I was sure I’d already mentioned it but can find no trace.) PDF below.

3. Another free Cambridge Elements download, free for the next ten days or so:  Thinking and Speaking in a Second Language by Yi Wang and Li Wei https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/thinking-and-speaking-in-a-second-language/A08F458B9DA07FCA64FE614BA44370E6

The authors seek to answer the question, “Does the language we speak affect the way we think?” PDF below.

4. And, finally, The Monocle’s Global Countdown podcast on what’s ‘top of the pops’ in countries around the world. This latest episode is Moldova https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-global-countdown/59/

and all the other 58 episodes are archived here, including Burkina Faso, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon and Serbia https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-global-countdown/